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Cartoonist/Illustrator Bill Murray drew the very first picture he can ever remember drawing when he was in kindergarten. It was a picture of the Mickey Mouse. And when he finished it, he gave it to the principal of his school who hung it on the wall of his office for the rest of the school year.Bill's fate was sealed. From then on, he knew he was going to be an artist.

Bill started his career as an illustrator in the early 1970’s, as a teenager working with the Johnson Publishing Company, the publishers of Ebony and Jet magazines. Murray earned his bachelor of fine arts degree in visual communications from the Institute of Art, Chicago, Illinois. Reading to his four-year-old daughter, Cheyanne inspired him to illustrate children’s books. ( Under African Skies ) First in a series of books that will follow in 2011.

Murray’s first feature was “Those Browns,” a cartoon series that Sammy Davis, Jr., distributed from 1975 to 1981. After creating Adam & Eve, A.D., a comic book, Murray hired Kevin Eastman, creator of the Ninja Turtles, to design the cover of his first issue in 1985. Highly successful, Adam & Eve, A.D was distributed internationally and issues are now collector’s items.

Cartoonist/Illustrator Bill Murray drew the very first picture he can ever remember drawing when he was in kindergarten. It was a picture of the Mickey Mouse. And when he finished it, he gave it to the principal of his school who hung it on the wall of his office for the rest of the school year.Bill's fate was sealed. From then on, he knew he was going to be an artist.
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COMING SOON MY eBOOK," LAND OF PREHISTORIC GIANTS. " Here also are some of the books I have done, and artists that I have worked with:Jerry Ordway, Ben Dunn and Kevin B. ( Ninja Turtles )... Read the rest of this post

Bill said: Under African Skies is the first in a series of children's picture books which is published by Nefu Books is an imprint of Africana Homestead League Publishers Inc.
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